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Observatory on Media and Culture: threatening or phantom power tools democratic? (Note 1)


By Octavio Getino

A new ghost appears to go, if not everyone, at least the interests of powerful media groups in Latin America. Simultaneous and coordinated large multimedia companies from different countries of the region, precisely those where projects have begun to settle political change, such as Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua, wield a kind of "cacerolazo" more or less synchronized the ghost of "observatories" that insinuated by some governments to monitor what so far are sectored-exclusive territories and exclusive-of powerful economic and financial groups, local and international.

This topic, like many others, is not difficult to see the manipulation of information by the mainstream media-which includes a network of communications specialists and numerous well-known journalists, leading media to try to oust any attempt to come from the state or society itself, to observe in terms of social status as a sector the media, owners of communication systems-both cultural and educational-more powerful than those that manage their own states to information and democratic citizenship education.

media represent portions of reality. As stated Martín Becerra, National University of Quilmes, "which appears in them and what is omitted (by criteria of newsworthiness always fallible) built himself a part of agenda that installs a few items and set values, to the detriment of others. Media coverage of the field of conflict proved once again that the approach to reality is never fair, that the selection of sources and the testimony there is a tendency, and can erode the position of some actors to promote public image of others. You need to talk about it. It is illogical that in a democracy we can talk about everything except the media. " (The Nation, 12/4/2008)

Every society needs reliable information systems, enabling observatories a better development of individuals, social groups, and public and private companies, and all the actors associated with the transformation, ie the overall improvement of society itself. This explains the existence of National Research Councils, Institutes of Statistics, National Meteorological Services, National Systems of Cultural Consumption, Cultural and Information Systems as part of these and other instruments to learn more and better define the context where our existence, National Observatory, provincial, or local to gather and process information of a different character (cultural policy, economics, women, children, cultural industries, management, discrimination, etc.).. Indeed, in the context of global multi-media expansion, the state not only can but is required to analyze, monitor, and regulate the circulation of content in a scientifically-measurable-that make the health of the population, like pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs. No one would ever leave these tangible products only in the hands of powerful business groups that produce and distribute, with no controls of any kind, under the pretext of guaranteeing a supposed "free enterprise." The most basic common sense cautions that these groups, more that health and healthy eating in a community, care about the amount of profits to be submitted annually to its shareholders or mutual funds on which they depend.

The problem appears when trying to break into the contents intangible, more difficult to assess than the purely material, but which affect the information, education and culture of the population, ie the foundation of public health with much or more power, for better or for worse, that is food or physical health. This field seems to be banned in almost absolute terms to any person or government sector and the pretext is the so called "freedom Press "that as more than once said, only serves those who have the power to exercise, ie big business.
However, press freedom is a social good that is intended is a constitutional guarantee for the whole society, is in order to preserve the collective good, that it protects the various forms of censorship, direct or indirect , which may have on journalists and media.

us agree that censorship is not only the political or ideological character that can come from the state, but large financial corporations are now the de facto power groups that have a capacity higher than that for defining what information must circulate in society or omitted, and how they will be targeted, as appropriate or not their interests, at least in the media that they directly control, such as shareholders, or indirectly, as an advertiser.

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"is a company Techint Argentina? (Note 2)


By Cynthia V. Lana

"Everything comes to rest in the supply of the Americas is in the hands of a dozen parent of Cadiz and another dozen in London and New York. This monopoly is the worst, most vile and limited. The consequence is that Americans are compelled to buy at huge all what they want to sell. And of course buy the wealthy. And this just encourages agriculture and manufacturing, which are the national wealth of every country. "

Bernardo de Monteagudo (" The Censor ", December 18, 1812).


According to the classical definition John Kenneth Galbraith, the benefit of transnational corporations consists of two fundamental characteristics: the use of the asymmetries between the country of origin and host countries of the filing of capital and the expansion of its financial sector.

To this, "said Galbraith in 1967 - firms should be placed first in competition at the national level, because success in this space depends on its expansionism.

currently operating the scheme has changed in some respects. As pointed out by Samir Amin, "U.S. multinationals and was formerly a U.S. state, transnational and British state British, French and a state transnational French-Belgian multinational smaller, and a Belgian state. However, today there are simply transnational, while there is no state that integrates them. "

assimilation between the political and economic, that characterized the dominant powers global market since the emergence of imperialism, lives its period of historic extinction. Today no one can speak of imperialism as an integrated process, but of imperialism, ie dominant transnational capitalist centers in a state of conflict, in which nation states, yet the central countries play a subordinate role.

Dissemination and policy instruments

however, has not gone the need for a common economic management of the global market by multinationals. The difference with the recent past is that there is no centralized political instrument to carry it out. The G7 and other attempts like that have not been particularly successful.

Here again, we turn to the incomparable definition of Samir Amin: "Capitalism is made up of contradictions and the entire capitalist enterprise is at the same time associated but also in conflict with the neighbor, but this does not stop them have common interests. Conflicting commercial, I would say, in constant competition, but also have common interests and common interests are the new basis of collective imperialism. "

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UIA Transnational dominant in our subcontinent are trying to convert the MERCOSUR as an instrument of the characteristics identified, in an inclusive regional political common economic management.

line seems to be expressed in the statement that the Industrial Union of Argentina (UIA)-controlled by Techint, circulated a few days ago about the possible nationalization of the company Sidor by the Bolivarian government of Venezuela.

The text "acknowledges the efforts being made by the Argentine government aimed to defend the project Terniun Sidor, a project that successfully embodies the policy of integration between Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela."

But more than integration, we would say that "the project" Sidor Terniun system is a classic transfer of wealth: the steel is sold cheaply to its own companies abroad and then imported, more expensive, seamless pipes (which are essential for the Venezuelan oil industry). This is a "value added" that is generated in the productive process itself and through which the transnational corporation carries out the various stages in different countries.

This is the business system that houses the neodevelopmentalist trend that emerged in Latin America as a result of the neoliberal crisis. The same process leading monopolies sheltered in the monetarist orthodoxy or the denationalization of the productive and now, as Claudio Katz, "oiled to maintain links with the financial capital, promote more industrial courses to encourage the development of new transnational 'Multilatinas' (as Slim, Odebrecht, Techint)."
"These companies," continued Katz, profited from privatization, but now industrial businesses prioritize and rank the regional market. "

The time for decisions

Following the announcement of the nationalization of Sidor, Techint is threatening to lead a boycott of Venezuela's state oil industry, failing to sell the strategic input while warns Argentina over the consequences of his retirement in the labor market. This prompted an understandable concern in the conduct of the Metal Workers Union, to the point that its leaders sent a letter to President Hugo Chavez calling for the crime.

President Cristina also seems to have taken up the matter with the aim of safeguarding the assets of "an enterprise Argentina."

But as we saw in these notes is not a company Techint Argentina. Be clear on this means nothing less than give the MERCOSUR project category reuniting of the Patria Grande and not a simple extension of the labor and consumer markets to transnational integrated and diversified, which are key centers of imperialism spread today.

therefore depend on the region's leaders know implement policies that build hope in our villages or maintain the status quo that, sooner or later, will prove to be another disappointment.

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About Holistic ...

On Holistic ... The word "holistic" comes from the Greek "holos" which means "Complete." And it is to see, understand, the human being as a whole, as a physical body, energy body, vital or etheric mind (Lower and Upper or concrete or abstract) and spirit. Everyone should be in a state of harmony and balance in order to live healthy, since but that quickly produce disharmony, blockages in the subtle nerves (nadis) through which prana flows, and the disease will rise in proportion to the blockade, and acute, chronic, or even given as malignant tumors, as is admitted by modern psycho-oncology. The human being as an expression of microcosm that is, analogy must live in harmony with the higher energies of the macrocosm (The Universe), understanding the Cosmic Law of Analogy, of Hermes Trismegistus. Many diseases entail, with the same symptoms, but are produced by different causes, such as the environment where they live, work, romantic relationships, where physical or psychic repression of the dominant pair, supported, just very sick to block the taxpayer, who becomes a victim, more or less rapid. physical body: Includes all organs and systems that comprise it refers to all physical parts of being human. In this area we recommend natural treatments herbal, fruit and vegetables, to detoxify the body, purify it of all deposits of toxins accumulated over a long time, either by neglect, poor diet or lack of knowledge, and add nutrients the body with all the vitamins, minerals and amino acids necessary to rebuild and improve therapies are recommended salud.También exercise, breathing, reflexology, magnet therapy, to relax and tone the organs, muscles and nerves. The etheric, energetic, or vital : Covers biomagnetic energy invisible to the naked eye, but now thanks to advances in scientific technology, and can be detected by electronic devices. In this area you are working from the vital energy centers, called chakras, opening and removing the accumulated trash and filling of positive energy all atoms of the etheric body, unlocking all channels through which flows the vital energy called prana or "Ki", \u200b\u200band this way we achieve that all molecules have a vibration and regain the balance of Polarity. Humans also function with two poles of life energy. The positive (Yang) and negative (Yin), it must balance these two forces. mental body : We know that all diseases arise from the mind of stress, anxiety, fears, phobias, grief, worry, frustration, etc. These moods are that the mind does not react the right way, and there is a change in operation of all systems, causing at first a slight discomfort, pain, swelling and then a real condition in the physical body. When human beings, instead of knowing themselves, spend their lives comparing themselves with others, cause disagreements and gaps, which makes robots that act as society or the circumstances. Together to address the three areas above, we encourage harmony and healing process to be more complete. Is oriented to the individual to pick up and remove old patterns of behavior, attitude and habits harmful emotional blocks and reprogram your mind to objectives positivos.Una happy person is a healthy person can not enter the disharmony or imbalance, there is stagnation, you just have to be willing to work with patience, discipline, and striving toward a noble goal and final goal of welfare and Holistic Therapy tranquilidad.La is nothing new, it was actually used since ancient times, what is being done now is to rescue all the wisdom that was kept for a long time and adapt to the times corren.Estamos entering a new era, where minds are the solution, can make the change and only requires the desire to give and share with very little effort to reach future generations the joy of living a reality in a world full of harmony between human beings is humanos.No possible to have a healthy physical body without a healthy mind, because the emotions are negative thoughts, we finally blocked, hence the saying Aristotelian "Mens sana in corpore sano."

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KARMA What is ...?

What is Karma ..? The Buddha realized that our suffering is not a mere product of chance, but has a CAUSED as are all phenomena. The law of cause and effect , better known as KARMA , is universal and fundamental to existence.

There is NO

FALL CAUSES BEYOND OUR CONTROL.

Karma literally means "ACTION", our actions are the cause of what we experience:

"All beings are owners of their actions, they inherited their acts emanating from their acts, are linked to their acts, their actions ARE HIS REFUGE. According to their deeds are vile or NOBLES, and BE THEIR LIVES. "

(Buddha).

Everything in life will find the result of our actions, with-next, each person can be master of its destiny by becoming the owner of them. Each is responsible for the actions that lead to their own suffering. Each one has the means to end the suffering caused by their actions.

The Buddha said:

"LABRAIS ARE YOUR OWN MASTER YOUR OWN FUTURE .."

Both the words and the acts or external effects are merely consequences of mental action, and to judge correctly must be based on the nature of the intention to act out.

The karma is real mental action, it is the cause which gives results in the future. Understanding this truth the Buddha said:

"Mind precedes all phenomena, the mind is what matters most. The mind produces EVERYTHING. If with an impure mind speak or act, then the YOU STILL SUFFERING, as the wagon wheel tracks the yoked animal. If with a pure mind speak or act, then happiness will continue as a shadow that never leaves .. " (Dhammapada, XXV ,21-380).

The RANDOM NO MATTER GOVERNED , the law of karmic causality, are summarized in a simple principle:

"WHO CREATED PRINT SUFFERING IN THE FUND'S SELF POTENTIAL OF SUFFERING, THAT CREATES POTENTIAL OF HAPPINESS HAPPINESS PRINT "

this potential or deposit of consciousness is called " Alaya-vigñaña.

"If you plant wheat, no rice harvest, nothing is accidental in the universe, such as seed and ASI will be built."

Depending on the cause and the effect.

AS ACTION IS WELL BE THE RESULT. We complain about our fate, fate is not CRUEL OR KIND, OPERATE UNDER A FIXED LAWS.

The destination all it does is help to manifest the quality of the seeds we have planted. The seed of the sugar cane has the quality of sweetness and therefore, the plant will be sweet. The seed of bitterness has the quality of bitterness, and the plant will be nothing but bitter.

Our problem is ignorance, not paying attention when we plant seeds of bitter gall, but when it comes to picking the fruit suddenly put us on alert, we want Sweet sugar cane crops, and we complain about the destination, we we take the responsibility to others, pray, cry and vain hope that the bitter wormwood tree we sugar cane.

can not give it to us, no power nor opportunity to give something else, the bitter gall, impure mind that we planted in the past. Therefore, the ancient sacred texts say

"Ultimately, no innocent victim, collect the fruit of the seed we planted in the past ... each moment we write our future!".